ISIR Summer School 2019
A PHD SUMMER SCHOOL ON “LOGISTICS 4.0: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IN A DIGITAL ERA”
Organized by the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and hosted by the University KU Leuven, the 14th ISIR Summer School will be held in Leuven, Belgium from August 26th until August 30th , 2019.

20th International Symposium on Inventories 20-24 August 2018 – Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget, Budapest, Hungary The International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) organized its 20th International Symposium on Inventories, the only scholarly forum in the world focusing directly on inventories in August 2018. Click here to download the Book of Abstracts Please find below the …

Chikan, A., Kovacs, E., Matyusz, Z., Sass, M., Vakhal, P. Inventories in National Economies A Cross-Country Analysis of Macroeconomic Data Provides a deeper understanding on the formation of inventories, structural relationships, and also the long-term characteristics of national economies. Introduces a new approach in the field of macroeconomic inventory studies. Uses multivariate statistics to evaluate long-term characteristics of inventory investments in …

ISIR SUMMER SCHOOL 2019

A PHD SUMMER SCHOOL ON “LOGISTICS 4.0: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IN A DIGITAL ERA“

Organized by the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and hosted by the University KU Leuven, the 14th ISIR Summer School will be held in Leuven, Belgium from August 26thuntil August 30th , 2019. ISIR’s bi-annual Summer School aims to bring together PhD students and professors with a background in inventory management to discuss and improve their research. This year’s theme will revolve around “Logistics 4.0: Inventory management in a digital era”.

Industry 4.0, the Internet-of-Things or Smart Industry are only a few nicknames to describe our current digitalized economy, characterized by automation, communicating devices and the increased availability of data and computing power. New methodologies such as advanced data science and machine learning have found their way into various business applications such as self-driving cars, virtual assistants or improved fraud detection. But these techniques also have applications to improve inventory management. The impact of these (and other) innovative approaches on inventory management plays a central role in this year’s Summer School.

We welcome researchers that contribute to the development of innovative approaches within inventory management. We welcome any contribution which advances theoretical and applied inventory modelling and management.

Key research streams that will be included in the Summer School are (but not limited to):

Understanding Cricket (Dr Anshuman Chutani, Nottingham) to coincide with the cricket World cup.

Best paper awards for best theory-oriented and best applications-oriented papers, as well as best PhD student presentations.

If you are interested in organising sessions/workshops/panels etc. on any specif topics, let one or one of our local organising committee know and we can discuss what might work – Bart MacCarthy, Christos Braziotis, Anshuman Chutani, Kim Tan, Anne Touboulic, Gongtao Zhang.

EDSI 2019 invites contributions from across the full spectrum of disciplines relevant to the decision sciences, including analysis, modeling, and qualitative studies. Relevant areas and topics include, but are not limited to,:

Decision Theory

Behavioral Decision Making

Public Sector Decision Making

Network Science

Social Network Analysis

Ecosystems and Open Innovation

Digital Business Transformations

Platform and Cloud-based Commerce

Finance and Fintech

Purchasing & Procurement Management

Quality in the Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management

Project Management

Health Care Management

Humanitarian Operations

Risk, Reliability and Safety Management

Information Systems and Big Data

IoT, the Physical Internet and Industry 4.0

Research Methods

Tutorial Sessions

Panels & Workshops

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission 7 February 2019

Notification of acceptance 14 March 2019

Full paper submission (optional) 18 April 2019

Best paper awards for best theory-oriented and best applications-oriented papers presented at the conference, as well as awards for best PhD student presentations.

Fast-track journal submissions will be available for full papers for the Decision Sciences Journal, the International Journal of Production Economics, the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, the Quality Management Journal, and AI in Finance.

The International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) organized its 20th International Symposium on Inventories, the only scholarly forum in the world focusing directly on inventories in August 2018.

Chikan, A., Kovacs, E., Matyusz, Z., Sass, M., Vakhal, P.

Inventories in National Economies

A Cross-Country Analysis of Macroeconomic Data

Provides a deeper understanding on the formation of inventories, structural relationships, and also the long-term characteristics of national economies. Introduces a new approach in the field of macroeconomic inventory studies. Uses multivariate statistics to evaluate long-term characteristics of inventory investments in developed countries.

Offers unique international perspectives from authors experienced in both research and industrial cooperation

Applies an international textbook approach with “three-level structure” per chapter: basic, advanced, state-of-the-art

Provides both an overview and a source on latest developments Features motivating case studies in many chapters

This book provides an overview of important trends and developments in logistics and supply chain research, making them available to practitioners, while also serving as a point of reference for academicians. Operations and logistics are cornerstones of modern supply chains that in turn are essential for global business and economics. The composition, character and importance of supply chains and networks are rapidly changing, due to technological innovations such as Information and Communication Technologies, Sensors and Robotics, Internet of Things, and Additive Manufacturing, to name a few (often referred to as Industry 4.0). Societal developments such as environmental consciousness, urbanization or the optimal use of scarce resources are also impacting how supply chain networks are configured and operated. As a result, future supply chains will not just be assessed in terms of costeffectiveness and speed, but also the need to satisfy agility, resilience and sustainability requirements. To face these challenges, an understanding of the basic as well as more advanced concepts and recent innovations is essential in building competitive and sustainable supply chains and, as part of that, logistics and operations. These span multiple disciplines and geographies, making them interdisciplinary and international. Therefore, this book contains contributions and views from a variety of experts from multiple countries, and combines management, engineering as well as basic information technology and social concepts. More info >>>

Despite the opportunities the automatization of industrial and logistic systems offers, many companies still rely on human work in many areas. Most planning models that have been proposed in the past to support managerial decision making in industrial and logistic systems have neglected the specific characteristics of human workers, which often led to unrealistic planning outcomes or work schedules that may even be harmful to workers employed in the system. To guarantee a high level of productivity and efficiency and to make sure that decision support models reflect reality as much as possible, it is necessary to consider human factors (synonymous here with ergonomics) in designing industrial and logistic systems that are reliable, efficient, and safe workplaces. Even though recent research has started to integrate human factors issues into decision support models – for example by modelling learning effects or human energy expenditure – there still seems to be a large gap in the literature concerning the development of decision support models for industrial and logistic systems that take account of the interaction between the human worker and the design of the logistics system. The latter can, unlike the worker, be heavily influenced by the system designer.

Generally, human factors (perceptual, mental, physical and psychosocial aspects) determine the performance of industrial and logistic systems to a large extent if human operators are employed. This aspect becomes more challenging in light of demographic changes, which will likely put human factor-related issues in logistics – such as the risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders in labor-intensive work environments, for example – on top of the agendas in many companies. In addition, the consequences of using industry 4.0 technologies that assist operators in their manual work, such as augmented reality, adaptable workstations or cobots, are not yet fully understood in light of human performance and errors. This session aims at investigating the development of innovative approaches for the integration of human factors in system design to create human-centered production and logistics systems of the future.

Prof. Henk Zijm officially retired from his position as full professor in Production and Supply Chain Management at the University of Twente on May 3, 2017. On June 7, 2017 he presented his valedictory lecture. A copy of the text of this lecture can be found here

We will continue the Working Seminar on Production Economics in 2020 Innsbruck. The detailed information of the organization, paper submission, registration will come soon. For current contact, please email:

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